Why is NASA and the JPL so gung-ho about not sharing their discoveries about the Red Planet with the people who pay for it all, namely you and I? Just a short perusal of officially released photos from our Mars expeditions reveal what can only be described as an abundance of life and water and Earth-like temperatures and conditions. Exactly the opposite of what they've been telling us for decades: that Mars is always about 100 degrees below zero and made of dried out dust with scant oxygen and no water or life at all. Of course it's all a big lie, and this week's retirement of a Space Shuttle is proof that Mankind's space adventure has taken a sudden detour away from the excited enthusiam and team spirit that animated the early years of NASA flights. Rumours and some photographic evidence suggest that some sort of intelligent alien presence accompanied the lunar landings and discouraged our returning there. Former top Astronauts Gordon Cooper and Edgar Mitchell have both testified on film and in public forums that this is so. Both witnessed UFO activity as test pilots and later as Astronauts. Some of the Martian photo evidence strongly suggests that a super-advanced civilization once (or still does) occupy the planet Mars. What appear to be the remains of massive cities and huge towering skyscrapers are present in many of the pictures taken from orbit. Their utter unrecognizability as geologocal features gives credence to the theory that we are witnessing something unknown to the majority of men and women on this planet. And the evidence for unfrozen, flowing water and biological growth is irrefutable. This may give a strong clue as to why the government has always been so squirrely about evidence of alien life forms. The idea that there are actually civilizations far beyond ours in evolution that are right "here" in our very own Solar System is staggering to say the least. Check out some of these NASA and JPL pictures for yourself. Much photographic evidence has been retouched to eliminate any pesky "anomalies" by JPL, using automated software. But some of that software was faulty and there are actually many unclassified photos that retain the original graphic information, revealing that what we all wished to know about Mars is already known to a few, who really don't want to scare the shit of the rest of the world. Plus they have no idea at all what it all means as far as national or global security. But the "backdoor" seems to be open on the web for this evidence. Best site is www.marsanomalyresearch.com

"Astronomical digital imaging is a fiercely complex topic. Most people assume that taking a digital picture is just like taking one with film: you point the camera, take the shot, and then look at the pretty color picture. In reality, things are a lot tougher than that. Before going on with this page, I strongly urge you to read this excellent essay about color imaging by astronomer (and my friend) Zolt Levay, who is one of the people responsible for making the gorgeous Hubble press images.

After reading that essay, you can see that astronomical images are taken in different filters. Each image is not really color, but greyscale (what some people erroneously call "black and white"), with each pixel representing the brightness of the target in the filter's color. This can be seen in the following images, which I have shamelessly stolen from Zolt's page. "

"What does this have to do with Mars? Everything! The martian rovers, as an example, carry a set of filters with them. These filters are designed to maximize the science returned from Spirit and Opportunity. They are not really designed to make a "true color" picture; that is, what you would see if you were standing on Mars. When the images from Mars are returned to Earth, and then processed to make a color image, what you are seeing at best is an approximation to what your eye can see. In reality, it may be very different. The filters on the rovers do not correspond to the color sensitivity of the human eye. Some of the filters only let through infra-red light, which is invisible to our eyes! "

Technically the Martian sky would be DARK bluish black or grey(thin atmos) IF IT WASN'T FOR ALL THE FREAKING RED DUST IN THE AIR.

Yes, there may have been life on Mars IN THE PAST. There could even be microbes. But trees? BULLSHIT.